A CBS DFW investigation just unearthed a startling trend: arrests in murder cases across the U.S. are at a 50-year low. And when a murder victim is Black, their case is even more likely to remain unsolved.
In the mid-1960s, more than ninety percent of murders were solved, generally resulting in an arrest. By 2020, as the number of homicides surged, the national clearance rate dropped to about 50 percent for the first time ever.
When asked, both departments insisted their internal records were the accurate ones, but CBS 11 pressed Dallas police to explain the significant discrepancy in data for its department. The department's intelligence division investigated and discovered errors in the reporting process. It's now working to correct its record in state and national databases to reflect its much higher success rate.
In a recent interview with former Dallas police chief Renee Hall, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod asked,"Does everyone know that in a department we are basically going to be as good as our murder clearance rate?" Her own father's murder, in the line of duty as a Detroit police officer, was never solved.
"There is some desire to know, how is Dallas doing against our peer cities? What are we not doing that these other cities are? Or, what can they learn from us?" he said."I want to understand whether or not the types of crimes have changed, whether staffing levels have changed, whether the training of my detectives has gone down over time," he said.
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